installing libarchive-zip-perl

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 02:13:55PM -0700, david wrote:
> I assume you meant /var/lib/dpkg/info/libnet-telnet-perl.list
> 
> The file contained a few hundred non-printables (unlike other .list files).
> The command
> I then applied your formula, and the 'apt upgrade' failed with
>   files list file for package 'libref-util-xs-perl' contains empty file namee
> 
> I didn't continue.
> 
> PS:  Shouldn't this all 'just work'?  This is the LTS distribution.

This is the result of filesystem corruption on your system, rather than
a general problem.  (The .list files are maintained by dpkg; they can
only contain this sort of garbage if the filesystem is corrupt, although
it's possible the corruption is localised if you did something like
pulling the power at some point.)

I'd remove the affected .list files and reinstall the corresponding
packages, one by one if necessary; I'd also check system logs for disk
errors.

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]